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Invention and technology and social change work in a more granular form than TFA supposes. When the electric lightbulb took off it lead to so many new ways of
by wombatmobile 5y ago
Invention and technology and social change work in a more granular form than TFA supposes.
When the electric lightbulb took off it lead to so many new ways of working and studying and entertainment, the world changed a thousand times over.
But it wasn’t necessary for Edison to contemplate night clubs or Logic Pro X or alternating night shifts for the changes to happen.
Just the lightbulb was enough for one thing to lead to another.
The future wasn’t invented at Parc in the 1970s, but a lot of it escaped from there and blossomed over the next fifty years.
- snarf21 5y agoExactly. The Wright Brothers weren't thinking about going to Mars, they wanted to make a "bird" that people could ride like a horse. New inventions spur more new inventions and new ideas. Sometimes it is just an old problem solved by combining two new things.
- dbsmith83 5y agoThis is a great point. The author's examples seemed cherry-picked to justify a cynical anti-establishment diatribe.